Assignment of Functions Implementing the HELP Commission Act

[Federal Register Volume 69, Number 250 (Thursday, December 30, 2004)]
[Presidential Documents]
[Page 78847]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 04-28730]

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Part V

The President

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Memorandum of December 8, 2004--Assignment of Functions Implementing
the HELP Commission Act

Presidential Determination No. 2005-10 of December 8, 2004--Waiver of
Restrictions on Providing Funds to the Palestinian Authority

Presidential Determination No. 2005-14 of December 15, 2004--Suspension
of Limitations Under the Jerusalem Embassy Act

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Title 3--
The President

Memorandum of December 8, 2004

Assignment of Functions Implementing the HELP
Commission Act

Memorandum for the Secretary of State [and] the
Administrator of the United States Agency for
International Development

By the authority vested in me as President by the
Constitution and laws of the United States, including
section 301 of title 3, United States Code:

1. The functions of the President under subsection
637(k) of the Commerce, Justice and State, the
Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act,
2004 (Division B, Public Law 108-199)(22 U.S.C.
2394b(k))(the ``Act'') are assigned to the Secretary of
State (Secretary).

2. The Administrator of the United States Agency for
International Development shall provide support to
assist the Secretary in the performance of functions
assigned by this memorandum, and the heads of executive
departments and agencies with information concerning
assistance programs shall furnish promptly to the
Secretary, consistent with applicable law, such
information as the Secretary may request to assist in
fulfillment of these responsibilities for the
preparation of the report to which subsection 637 (k)
refers.

3. The Secretary shall coordinate the receipt by
departments and agencies of requests from the HELP
Commission under section 637(e) of the Act for
information and their responses to such requests. Such
departments and agencies shall provide relevant
information and responses promptly. The Secretary shall
ensure that such responses occur in a manner consistent
with the President's constitutional authority to
withhold information that could impair foreign
relations, national security, the deliberate processes
of the Executive, or the performance of the Executive's
constitutional duties.

4. Heads of executive departments and agencies shall
assist the Secretary in the implementation of this
memorandum.

5. The Secretary is authorized and directed to publish
this memorandum in the Federal Register.

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THE WHITE HOUSE,

Washington, December 8, 2004.